Independent MP Ákos Hadházy organised a mass protest in Budapest again, bridges closed – PHOTOS

Independent lawmaker Ákos Hadházy organised a demonstration for the withdrawal of the amendment to the assembly law and the bill on the transparency of public life in Budapest on Tuesday.

Hadházy: scandals every week

Hadházy told the protesters gathered at Budapest’s Fovam Square that he did not know “when there will come a point when everyone will realise that these people will do anything”.

He said today’s was the tenth protest demanding the withdrawal of the amendment to the public assembly law, adding that they would not stop “until that techno-fascist legislation” and the bill on the transparency of public life were withdrawn.

He said a decree would make it possible for facial recognition software to be used “not just on opposition protesters”, but for any type of violation.

Hadházy said that every week “and almost every day” there was a “scandal” in Hungary that “should bring tens of thousands of protesters out to the streets”.

Edit Simkó, a teacher, said the government was “afraid of thinking citizens, civil groups, the press and everything it doesn’t own”. She called on protesters to “say no” to the government “or at least not to be subservient to it”.

Péter Heindl, a lawyer, said the “oppressive measures implemented by the Orban governments since 2010” had been aimed at “ensuring that the regime can’t be voted out in an election”.